The Great Wonders Of The American Empire (2): The Hanging Cemetery Of Babylon

Hanging Cemetery

from the ground

(Please keep in mind the satire of Jonathan Swift when you read this. It is satire, pure and simple.) In a certain universe, it was recently proposed that there be built “a gigantic presence of a hanging funereal structure” , hovering above the blood and dust of the war-torn streets of Baghdad, floating from the explosions in the morning until the still, dark, stifling nights, and ever replenished with an endless supply of the Dead. Furthermore, if you are struck dumb and speechless by this and say that such a project is impossible ( even though you are, technically speaking, still speechless), it was pointed out that a prototype already exists in the flights of cargo planes of dead coalition soldiers back to their homes. Add to these the surprise visits by various dignitaries, celebrity journalists who will be feted by the troops, and politicians on fact-finding committees, and you have already a grim aerial structure dedicated to the transience of human life.

Hanging Cemetery

from above

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